1896 (17 Dec) registered cover franked with unoverprinted Russian 7k and 14k, tied by "Peking Pocht. Kontora" cds, repeated at bottom, addressed to the Russo-Chine Bank in St. Petersburg, with transit and arrival pmks, fine (Image)

Est.$500

1897 registered cover showing the Russo-Chinese Bank Vladivostok handstamp in oval, with pair of 14k carmine & blue uncanceled, but with a five line manuscript indicating the cover was received in St. Petersburg "uncanceled from Hankow", Port Arthur transit and St. Petersburg arrival pmks on back, filing fold away from the stamps, fine and interesting usage (a clerk in the Russian Post Office in Hankow was not sure how to handle unoverprinted Russian stamps. He accepted the letter, but left cancelling decisions to higher authorities), ex-Kurt Adler collection (Image)

Est.$500

1906 (1 Sep) registered cover from St. Petersburg, with 14k franking on back, tied by departure cds, addressed to the Headquarters of the Chinese Eastern Railway in Harbin, with Main Field Post Office (15.9.06) arrival pmk on back, fine and interesting incoming mail to the Chinese Eastern Railway Headquarters (Image)

Est.$150

1909 (21 Aug) cover franked with 7k dark blue (red Kitai overprint) tied by Shanghai Poste Russe departure cds, repeated alongside, sent to a well known merchant in Bukhara, with elaborate violet handstamp and "Staraya Bukhara" arrival pmks, some cover edge faults, otherwise fine, uncommon destination (Bukhara from Shanghai) (Image)

Est.$150

1910-14 two picture postcards with 3k franking, one with "Harbin-Vladivostok" in oval, the other "Harbin-Manchuria" and sent to Vladivostok, fine-v.f., with arrival pmks (Image)

Est.$150

1911 (4 Apr) registered 7k stationery entire envelope additionally franked with vertical pair of 7k light blue, tied by Harbin Railway Station departure datestamps, with registry label alongside, addressed to Kursk, with violet "Extracted from a postbox at the Harbin Station" two line handstamp in Cyrillic on back, some paper strengthening, fine example of correspondence extracted from a Railway Station post office box at Harbin (Image)

Est.$500

1911 (30 Jan) underpaid picture postcard sent from Omsk to Chzhalantun Station, Chinese Eastern Railway, franked with 2x1k yellow, oval "Doplatit" (To Pay) applied in Omsk, with "2k" added in pencil, showing a perfect arrival strike of "Chzhalantun St.Kit.Vost.Zh.D." (-6-11), v.f. and extremely rare usage, extraordinary incoming mail to Chalantung (an important center in northern Manchuria, handling all types of mail on Line 261/262, about mid-way between Harbin and Manchuli) (Image)

Est.$5,000

1912 (9 Sep) picture postcard from "Harbin Pristan" (Harbin Wharf or Harbin Pier) to Amsterdam, franked with 4k Arms, tied by "Harbin.Prist. St.Kit.Vost.Zh.D." cds, repeated on the address portion, fine usage from the Harbin Pier station of the Chinese Eastern Railway (Image)

Est.$500

1912 picture postcard, franked with 3k red, sent to Hailar, with well struck arrival in Hailar, station of the Chinese Eastern Railway (26 Feb 12), fine and scarce incoming mail to the Chinese Eastern Railway Station in Hailar (formerly a county-level city, Hailar is today an urban district that serves as the seat of the prefecture-level city Hulunbuir in northeastern Inner Mongolia) (Image)

Est.$250

1913 (21 Nov) registered red-band cover to Vladivostok, franked on back with 2x7k Romanov, tied by two strikes of "Ashikhe St.Kit. Vost. Zhe. D." (Ashikhe Chinese Eastern Railway Station), with additional strike on front, along with the registration label No.502, Vladivostok arrival (23.11.13), fine and spectacular exhibition piece. Ashikhe (in Chinese A-Cheng) is a station of the C.E.R. (Line 263/264). While Tchilingirian states that only one cover is known, another cover from the same correspondence (ex-Salisbury), was sold in our March 2015 sale ($5,000 hammer) and another used in 1917 (ex-Dr.Casey) was sold for Euro 4,080 in 2013 (Image)

Est.$4,000

1915 (21 Apr) registered 10k stationery entire envelope with additional 2x15k franking (red or black Kitai overprints), used from Peking to Kegel, bilingual Registry label, backstamped on arrival, overall toning, otherwise fine (Image)

Est.$150

1915 (28 Jun) cover franked on back with unoverprinted pairs of 2k and 3k Arms, tied by oval "Vladivostok-Harbin" departure datestamps, addressed to "Station Tsitsikar" and showing a good arrival postmark of "Tsitsikar" Chinese Eastern Railway Station (1.7.15) arrival, violet censor handstamp, considerable cover wear, markings intact, scarce incoming mail (Image)

Est.$150

1915 (1 Aug) registered cover franked with 10k Semi-Postals, tied by Harbin departure cds, with two different Registry labels, one in Cyrillic, the other "Kharbin Poste Russe", sent to Switzerland, opened by censor in Irkutsk, with two corresponding handstamps, Petrograd transit and Zollikon arrival pmks on back, v.f., scarce usage of the Semi-Postal issue from Harbin (Image)

Est.$500

1917 (9 July) free-frank cover to a Russian Prisoner of War held in Germany, posted in Siberian T.P.O. with oval "Khabarovsk-143-Vladivostok" serial "v", censored in transit at a Russian Post Office in Manchuria, where rectangular Passed by Censor "Pogranichanaya No.2" handstamp was applied, with German markings indicating the addressee could not be found, with 12 November arrival datestamp, cover wear, rare markings, ex-Dr.Casey (Image)

Est.$150

1919 (21 Mar) registered cover addressed to the Great Northern Telegraph Co. in Vladivostok, franked with vertical pair 10c on 10k dark blue, tied by "Shanghai" (Zagranchn. Pocht. Kont.) departure cds, repeated alongside, with "Shanghai Poste Rosse" Registry label, opened by censor, with four-line "No.20" cachet and Vladivostok arrival (Image)

Est.$150

1920 (17 Nov) cover franked with unoverprinted Imperial 2k and two each 4k and 5k, tied by "Harbin-Pristan" (Harbin pier/wharf) departure cds, repeated alongside, with Moscow arrival pmk on back (Image)

Est.$150